Courtesy: Library of Congress Whitman was forty-two years old when the Civil War started ... soldiers in the newspapers in December 1862, Walt hurried south to find his brother.

But in either case, Ed Folsom, co-director of the Walt Whitman Archive, says he sees them as the beginning of a complex allegory of the Civil War that the poet would continue developing in the ...

there are few better sources of inspiration than Walt Whitman, who spent more than three years volunteering his time during the U.S. Civil War. U.S. News // 2 months ago SS United States to be ...

Walt Whitman offers insights into social studies topics including the Civil War, the impact of war on soldiers and their families, American literary history, the history of New York City ...